{"id":129112,"date":"2024-11-23T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T02:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129112"},"modified":"2024-11-23T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T02:17:48","slug":"elon-musk-is-directing-harassment-toward-individual-federal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129112","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is directing harassment toward individual federal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/22\/24302735\/elon-musk-doge-vivek-ramaswamy-rage-curtis-yarvin\">currently nonexistent<\/a> Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. Now, before it even gets rolling, he has begun singling out individual government employees he says are emblematic of the government\u2019s bloat and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Earlier this week, as first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/musk-unleashes-online-army-on-federal-workers-a-tough-way-to-find-out-shes-losing-her-job-f57a2e94?st=v5Qcvf&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share\">reported by <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, the X user \u201cdatahazard\u201d shared a screenshot on X highlighting the role of Ashley Thomas, the Director of Climate Diversification at the US International Development Finance Corporation, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think the US Taxpayer should pay for the employment\u201d of that role. Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1858916546338590740\">reposted it<\/a>, adding the comment \u201cso many fake jobs\u201d in a post with more than 33 million views. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">As the <em>WSJ <\/em>notes, Musk\u2019s followers have responded in exactly the way you\u2019d expect: with a flood of memes and harassment targeting Thomas, whose LinkedIn and Facebook pages are now private. Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, told the <em>WSJ <\/em>that the posts \u201care aimed at sowing terror and fear at federal employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Flooding targets with harassment is a tactic Musk has done in the past, including calling caver Vernon Unsworth a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/12\/6\/20998821\/elon-musk-wins-loses-twitter-defamation-trial-testimony-caver-vernon-unsworth-cave-rescue\">\u201cpedo guy,\u201d<\/a> criticizing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/27\/23044521\/twitter-policy-chief-vijaya-gadde-elon-musk-policy-criticism-harassment\">a former Twitter exec<\/a> following his offer to buy the company, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23551060\/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji\">suggesting that<\/a> head of trust and safety Yoel Roth was sympathetic to pedophilia. All, of course, under the guise of \u201cfree speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The ensuing harassment, of course, is precisely the point: Musk has systematically turned X into a megaphone for his views and has wielded that megaphone to whatever end he finds funny or useful. Musk and DOGE co-lead Vivek Ramaswamy have promised to do much of their work in public (and sometimes by X poll), too, which means this kind of pointed attention is likely headed toward many other civil servants in the near future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/22\/24303594\/elon-musk-harassing-federal-workers-x\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the currently nonexistent Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. 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